Cabbages and KingsA series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. In this book, O. Henry coined the term "banana republic." |
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Pagina 12
The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and protographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores .
The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and protographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores .
Pagina 17
“ Read that , Billy , " he said . “ It's from Bob Englehart . Can you manage the cipher ? ” Keogh sat in the other half of the doorway , and carefully perused the telegram . “ ' Tis not a cipher , " he said , finally .
“ Read that , Billy , " he said . “ It's from Bob Englehart . Can you manage the cipher ? ” Keogh sat in the other half of the doorway , and carefully perused the telegram . “ ' Tis not a cipher , " he said , finally .
Pagina 18
“ It won't do to let the goose and gander slip through our fingers , Billy ; their feathers are too valuable . Our crowd is prepared and able to step into the shoes of the government at once ; but with the treasury empty we'd stay in ...
“ It won't do to let the goose and gander slip through our fingers , Billy ; their feathers are too valuable . Our crowd is prepared and able to step into the shoes of the government at once ; but with the treasury empty we'd stay in ...
Pagina 20
Kcep the matter quiet , Billy , ” advised Goodwin . “ We don't want the Ins to know that the president is in flight . I suppose Bob's information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet . Otherwise he would not have tried to make ...
Kcep the matter quiet , Billy , ” advised Goodwin . “ We don't want the Ins to know that the president is in flight . I suppose Bob's information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet . Otherwise he would not have tried to make ...
Pagina 21
Don't get romantic , Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ancestry . ” “ I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; “ but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculpture , and fiction reduced to ...
Don't get romantic , Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ancestry . ” “ I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; “ but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculpture , and fiction reduced to ...
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Pagina 14 - His Nibs skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You to know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs were beginning to crawl to land for their nightly ramble. And it died, at last, upon the highest peaks. Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the flight of a moth, came and went; the Southern Cross peeped with its topmost eye above a row of palms, and the fire-flies heralded with their...
Pagina 11 - CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras.
Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Cabbages and Kings American fiction IV, 1901-1905 The complete edition of O. Henry |
| Autore | O. Henry |
| Editore | A. L. Burt Company, 1904 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of Michigan |
| Digitalizzato | 12 mar 2008 |
| Lunghezza | 312 pagine |
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